PARSI New Year was celebrated by Lighthouse students on Friday, August 23rd, 2019. Students of classes 3 and 4 decorated the porch outside the class and a portion of the classroom floor with rangoli designs under the guidance of the teacher. The celebration was held in two batches – at 4 pm for classes 1 to...
THE Vocational Training Centre (VTC) for Excellence is a joint project of Bombay YMCA and Rotary Club of Bombay. It was established in 1993 and has, since then, provided vocational training facilities and services. It has touched close to 50,000 lives since inception and presently offers courses such as Tailoring, Advance Tailoring, Beautician, Mehendi-Basic and...
DISTRICT 3141’s team headed by our very own PP Rtn. Ramesh Narayan executed an awareness campaign on what exactly elders in society need from young adults. Research showed that what they really wanted, predominantly, was just one thing: ‘time’ from their young. The India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA) decided to take this up...
THE Jal Jeevan project is very close to all our hearts at the Water Resources Committee of the Rotary Club of Bombay. On August 29th, 2019, IPP Rtn. Vijay Jatia, PP Rtn. Sandip Agarwalla, Rtn. Siddharth Bhimrajka and Rtn. Anand Parikh visited Jalna to inaugurate three Jal Jeevan Safe Drinking Water facilities in villages in Jalna...
Singer Sonu Nigam put his vocal chords to good use with his stellar performance at the Rotary Club of Bombay’s headlining fund-raiser TUNE TOH PAL BHAR MEIN CHORI KIYA REY JIYA… SONU NIGAM THE Rotary Club of Bombay’s fundraiser “Sonu Nigam- Live in Concert”, held on August 27th, 2019, at NCPA was a great success, thanks to...
Dear Friends, IndIAA Awards were presented on August 26th, with glitz and glamour. IAA Rotary Campaign for Good for Elders Award, presented by District Governor Harjit Talwar and yours truly, is relevant to us Rotarians. This campaign is a testimony that when ‘Good meets Good’, it creates the best of the best. An issue which we...
ON Thursday, August 22nd, 2019, students of the Lighthouse class were treated to a storytelling session by a professional storyteller. Sarita Shetty – Creative Writer and Head of Operations of Little Readers Nook, Bandra – a storyteller par excellence, enthralled the children with the story of Krishna’s birth. She used simple props like coloured dupattas...
Dear Friends, Very warm greetings. “13 Steps to Bloody Good Health” co-authored by our PP Rtn. (Dr.) Mukesh Batra (a man of many talents) along with Ashwin Sanghi is a must read for all age groups. We were fortunate to get a first-hand account of these two celebrities’ experiences in authoring this book. As the authors stated,...
THE Rotary Club of Bombay celebrated Raksha Bandhan at both our Ananda Yaan centres in Byculla and Dr. E. Moses Road. The event was conducted by followers of the Brahma Kumari movement and coordinated by our project partners, Dignity Foundation. The speakers explained the true meaning of Raksha Bandhan and how it is not necessary for...
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The Child Welfare Committee organised an Independence Day celebration on August 15th, 2019 for Lighthouse students from classes 3 to 5.Held by the machimaar community, Rtn. Charu Agrawal and Ms. Manisha Ahuja from Vidya, our project partners, attended the celebration to encourage the children and the community. Around 300 people from the community gathered and, since...